HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080848100
Bassin du Niger
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Mashegu, Mokwa
Sub-basin area
136,6km²
Upstream area
3 543,1km²
Discharge
25,3m³/s
Mean elev.
150m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080842730173 km²
- Bassin · #1080842960137 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 135.0 km²99.3% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 136mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
218mm/an
PET
1 893mm
AET
924mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
149cm
Forest
23%
Crops
37%
Urban
16%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)